Quotes About Inaction

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now? Page 76

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada, y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz. Miro

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

But over the long haul, we regret inactions more than actions, 84 to 16 percent.

In the end we regret not what we have done but what we have not done.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.

An excuse explains why we fell short of expectations after the fact. Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.

Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Asked about our sense that we are not safe in our own world, Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

But mostly because the news was boring and I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

I hadn't looked at the maps yet and I'd barely looked at the survey package. In my defense, we'd been here twenty-two planetary days and I hadn't had to do anything but stand around watching humans make scans or take samples of dirt, rocks, water, and leaves. The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

The emptiness of your knowing everything about things you want to change, can't change anything.

For we Germans are snoring, buried in sleep and wine, and we are destitute of leaders who could measure up in wisdom, strategy, and strength of heart to manage such great undertakings.

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

eventually you regretted the things you hadn't done as much as the things you had.

what recently nurtured the tyranny was nothing other than our inaction … Weakened by the pleasure of peace we learned to live like slaves

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.